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Bird Flu Spreads to Abuja, Zamfara, Katsina
This Day (Lagos)
February 20, 2006
Posted to the web February 21, 2006
Josephine Lohor
Abuja
The Federal Government has announced that the Bird Flu has been detected in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Minister for Information and National Orientation, Frank Nweke, who said this yesterday, also stated that the Presidential Committee on the Prevention and Management of Avian Flu has taken delivery of the drug currently being used to manage the flu amongst humans, in countries where the flu had occurred.
Nweke, while re-affirming the determination of the Federal Government to curtail the spread and effects of the Bird Flu, told newsmen that in spite of the new outbreaks, the infection has remained localised within the earlier identified states of Plateau, Kaduna, Kano and Bauchi, adding that multi-agency surveillance teams put up by government has visited Abia, Edo, Rivers, Niger, Anambra, Sokoto and Nasarawa states where samples taken tested negative.
According to him, "extensive diagnostic tests have been conducted and are on-going amongst poultry workers nationwide, to date, no human cases have been recorded in Nigeria," Nweke said.
He said the presidential committee on the flu has ordered immediate stamping out of all birds in the affected farms, and commended state governments that have set up similar committees, and offered to assist in augmenting compensation to be paid to affected farmers in their states.
According to Nweke, "the Committee wishes to commend state governments who have established task forces to manage the crisis within their respective states and hereby call on states yet to do this to immediately do so, even if the flu has not been isolated within their states."
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Bird Flu Spreads to Abuja, Zamfara, Katsina
This Day (Lagos)
February 20, 2006
Posted to the web February 21, 2006
Josephine Lohor
Abuja
The Federal Government has announced that the Bird Flu has been detected in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Minister for Information and National Orientation, Frank Nweke, who said this yesterday, also stated that the Presidential Committee on the Prevention and Management of Avian Flu has taken delivery of the drug currently being used to manage the flu amongst humans, in countries where the flu had occurred.
Nweke, while re-affirming the determination of the Federal Government to curtail the spread and effects of the Bird Flu, told newsmen that in spite of the new outbreaks, the infection has remained localised within the earlier identified states of Plateau, Kaduna, Kano and Bauchi, adding that multi-agency surveillance teams put up by government has visited Abia, Edo, Rivers, Niger, Anambra, Sokoto and Nasarawa states where samples taken tested negative.
According to him, "extensive diagnostic tests have been conducted and are on-going amongst poultry workers nationwide, to date, no human cases have been recorded in Nigeria," Nweke said.
He said the presidential committee on the flu has ordered immediate stamping out of all birds in the affected farms, and commended state governments that have set up similar committees, and offered to assist in augmenting compensation to be paid to affected farmers in their states.
According to Nweke, "the Committee wishes to commend state governments who have established task forces to manage the crisis within their respective states and hereby call on states yet to do this to immediately do so, even if the flu has not been isolated within their states."
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